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The Andersen-Kashaev volume conjecture for FAMED geometric triangulations

Geometric Topology 2026-03-02 v2

Abstract

We investigate the Andersen-Kashaev volume conjecture by introducing the notion of FAMED triangulations, a class of ideal triangulations of 33-manifolds satisfying certain specific combinatorial properties. For any FAMED triangulation of a one-cusped hyperbolic 33-manifold MM with trivial second homology, we prove the existence of the Jones function in the Teichm\"uller TQFT of MM. For FAMED geometric triangulations of MM, we establish an asymptotic expansion of the Jones function in terms of the Neumann-Zagier potential function and the 1-loop invariant of Dimofte-Garoufalidis. As a consequence, we prove the Andersen-Kashaev volume conjecture for MM and provide new insights for the AJ conjecture for the Teichm\"uller TQFT developed by Andersen-Malusa. We further discover a new phenomenon: for FAMED geometric triangulations, the partition function in Teichm\"uller TQFT decays exponentially with decrease rate the hyperbolic volume of a cone structure determined by the prescribed angle structure. This perspective provides a potential application to the Casson conjecture on angle structures. Expanding the previous result of Gu\'eritaud, Piguet-Nakazawa and the first author and complementing a parallel result of Guilloux and both authors, we prove all the above generalizations of the Andersen-Kashaev volume conjecture for every hyperbolic twist knot and for the first 42,000 hyperbolic knots in S3S^3.

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@article{arxiv.2410.10776,
  title  = {The Andersen-Kashaev volume conjecture for FAMED geometric triangulations},
  author = {Fathi Ben Aribi and Ka Ho Wong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.10776},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

55 pages, 4 figures, comments welcome! v2: We improved the exposition, added the references to the "42,000 knots" paper, and added missing arguments about uniform bounds of error terms